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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP I just want to be clear. Your take is that only white refugees will be allowed to apply? That's what you're saying? How do you feel about political disinformation on online platforms, do you think it should be censored?[/quote]

Not the OP but when refugee programs only allow white people to apply that's what it means. [b] Trump has given refugee priority to white Afrikaners and has frozen the program for anyone else.  [/b]

Not sure what that has to do with disinformation and online platforms.

My own position is that online disinformation shouldn't be censored but I do believe it's fair and reasonable to label it as false or disinfo and post a fact check when it's proven to be false, and especially if it's willfully and maliciously misleading, such as election disinfo or other types of things that are genuinely harmful to society.  That's not censorship, despite right wingers who claimed it is.[/quote]

Thanks for the reminder, PP. The US refugee program has been suspended since January 2025 and is currently accepting white South Africans (Afrikaners) under a specific executive exception, while blocking most other admissions. Going forward, the government seems to be planning to 1) lower refugee quotas overall and 2) prioritize white South Africans when granting refugee status (although not exclusively). It sounds a lot like a "whites are preferred" policy even though they will no doubt accept a certain number of non-whites.

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So he is claiming only certain whites of the minority whites experience discrimination?

So white South Africans who are not Afrikaners need not apply?[/quote]

This is the OP. Yes, that's what my research indicates. The Trump admin has suspended the entire refugee program EXCEPT FOR Afrikaners, who have a specific carve out in EO 14204 (2/7/25).

Section 2(b)(ii) of that Executive Order states:
“The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, consistent with applicable law, prioritize humanitarian relief, including admission and resettlement through the United States Refugee Admissions Program, [b]for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation[/b].”

It's crazy and unprecedented in the history of the US refugee program to ONLY admit refugees from one very narrow racial/ethnic group from one specific country to the exclusion of all others. 
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